The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed.

Therefore I am filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.

Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.